Streets closed plus Myriad and Streetcar affected:
Sheridan is closed from Robinson to Hudson Avenue, and Robinson is closed from Sheridan to Main Street.
The city said the area below damaged parts of the tower remains at risk from falling debris.
Myriad Botanical Gardens directly across Sheridan south of the tower is closed until the area is considered safe.
Oklahoma City Streetcar riders are being bused around the restricted area. Streetcar tracks run on both Sheridan and Robinson.
https://newsok.com/article/5631486/w...will-be-closed
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Devon Energy
@DevonEnergy
1/While we continue to assess today’s incident at the tower, street closures will remain in effect until further notice. We appreciate the community’s understanding as we prioritize safety first.
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2/We regret that the
@myriadgardens
is temporarily closed and that traffic will be rerouted until the exterior damage to the tower is secured. Thank you in advance to our
@DowntownOKC neighbors for your patience.
Devon Energy
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3/We can’t thank the
@OKCFD
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@OKCPD
,
@EMSAOK
and the entire Devon team enough for their continued hard work and dedication.
Apparently this was even on the news in Tokyo, according to a friend over there. Yikes.
So the park and streets may be closed for awhile since they cant stabilize damaged section until service basket is deemed safe again and winds die down.
Until the winds die down.....in Oklahoma....hahahahaha
Is this going to turn into an opportunity for Devon to fix the lights?
There was a big dispute between the company that installed them and Devon.
Both sides blamed each other but I'm not aware of any legal action.
I saw it on TV news here in Seattle last night.
These things happen sometimes; there was no negative reflection on Devon nor the city in the news story. The ONLY reaction was "gasp, OMG" from the news casters that were observing the lift flailing about the top of the very tall skyscraper. ..
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You all probably never heard but we had a tower crane collapse about two weeks ago here in Seattle for a low rise Google building u/c, where the crane didn't have it's boom installed yet but the "tower" collapsed (due to not being properly bolted together) and fell onto a very busy street (killing at least 4). - I'd be much more embarrassed by that as a city and obviously as a construction company than a mishap of the cleaning system. -
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
^^^
We saw that on TV the weekend it happened. And you are right. It was much worse that the Devon mishap.
Not only are a bunch of streets closed as well as Myriad Gardens, but they also can't run the streetcars because the routes go right through the affected area.
I really hope their isnt a tornado or straight line wind event in downtown. This was only a couple of panels and look how much of an impact it jhad.
Confused why all this stuff has to close, Devon or the City can't find a few brooms?
Had a friend staying at the Colcord last night and met him at Mahogany downtown for happy hour. The police had it taped off where you weren't even supposed to walk across the street from the Colcord to the restaurant. The entire stretch of Robinson between Sheridan and Park was blocked off from cars and pedestrians. Is there a danger from falling debris that far from the building? Worried about catching a gust of wind?
In the video, the basket smashed repeatedly into the upper crown of the building for almost an hour. I watched the tower being built with great interest, and that part of the crown is probably not the strongest part of the building, it has a lot of glass and the metal tubing covering the exterior of Devon Energy Center. I would imagine there's a lot of "stuff" barely hanging on. A puff of wind could probably knock some of that "stuff" off.
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